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Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]

1 online resource (273 pages)

ISBN 9781498569798 (e-book)

ISBN 9781498569781

Print version: Celso, Anthony. Islamic state : a comparative history of Jihadist warfare. Lanham : Lexington Books, c2018 273 pages ISBN 9781498569781

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : the Islamic State in comparative context -- Jihadist insurgency : failure and destruction breed resilience -- Islamic regression, jihadist frustration and Takfirist hyper violence -- The Islamic state Islamist "fifth wave" Islamist worldview -- The Islamic State’s impact on jihadist insurgency in Iraq and Syria -- The Islamic State’s reorientation of jihad in Egypt and Libya -- The Islamic State’s impact on jihadist war in Nigeria and Mali -- The Islamic State’s totalistic war against the West -- The jihadist forever war : six key conclusions.

The book examines the progressive radicalization of modern Sunni jihadist movements from a comparative perspective. It links growing jihadist extremism to past failures and analyzes the rise and fall of the Islamic State’s "caliphate" as the culmination of this evolution..

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